For a character to come to life, usually we need to have a strong motivation (desire or fear), and a negative one might work even better than a positive one—namely fear of a perceived threat. Many genres are based on the generative and imaginative force of fear—murder mysteries, horror, ghost stories, war stories, disaster stories, …
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ЗА УЪРКШОПАПриродата често ни оставя без дъх… и без думи. Любуваме се на пъстри цветя, обичаме да ядем сочни ябълки, разхождаме се из светли широколистни гори и по диви планински пътеки, птичата песен разтуптява сърцата ни, ромонът на потоците ни успокоява, слушаме с трепет прибоя на разгневените морски вълни, галим нежно кучето или котката вкъщи, възхищаваме се и на …
Course Description: The easy temptation when one thinks about setting is to equate it with physical place alone. But this habit deprives you of a potentially much richer resource: the culture, psychology, and history of the places where you set your tales. Increasing your awareness of the aspects of setting that lie beneath physical place …
Beyond Physical Place: Expanding Your Sense of Setting – asynchronous Read More »
“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Course Description The more things change the more we need…monsters. But why do some chill us more than others? How do writers make invented magic seem real? Why do characters talk so much during battle scenes? How …
Workshop Description: What You Know: Writing Our Way Into the World Remember that old creative writing chestnut “Write what you know”? Turns out you know a lot more than you might have ever dreamed possible. In this interactive course, we’ll be exploring how as fiction writers we can imagine ourselves into different times, different places, …
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Description In this generative writing workshop, students will use the raw materials of their own lives to develop multiple drafts of a personal essay or other work of nonfiction. In the first half of this multiple-day workshop, we will work with lectures, readings, and assignments by the instructor to produce ideas and rough material, using …
Close to Home: Writing Personal Nonfiction Drawn from Life – asynchronous Read More »
About the workshop Good writing starts with strong characters. In this DEEP DIVE INTO CHARACTERS workshop, centered on personal nonfiction writing but applicable to fiction, novelist and essayist Diana Spechler will guide you through exercises and prompts that shine a light on human nature, your own nature, and the natures of your characters. About the …
DEEP DIVE INTO CHARACTERS WITH DIANA SPECHLER – asynchronous Read More »
This short, interactive writing programme will equip you to write magic realist prose fiction. Facilitated by Northern Irish novelist and short story writer, Jan Carson, the sessions will explore what magic realism is, the history behind the genre, contemporary and much-celebrated magic realist writers and how to write your own magic realist short story. Carson …
Magic Realism for Beginners with Jan Carson – asynchronous Read More »
ОПИСАНИЕ Уършопът „Имало едно бъдеще!“ с Диана Петрова ще използва приказния модел, за да провокира учениците да си представят света след изолацията, както и от позицията на бъдещето да разкажат миналото преди пандемията. Всеки уъркшоп ще се проведе при следната структура: √ Видео- лекция с въведение в темата √ Задача за четене и писмена рефлексия …
„ИМАЛО ЕДНО БЪДЕЩЕ!“ С ДИАНА ПЕТРОВА – асинхронен Read More »
The first chapter of your novel is possibly the most important! It not only introduces your reader to your book but also guides you as a writer into the project of your own book. In this intensive short course on first chapters, you’ll be invited to share your first chapter with me (or write one), …
CHAPTER ONE! Writing/Editing the Perfect Opening for Your Novel Read More »